Facts About Position of States
. Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh are the states of India lying cor,npletely in the Himalayas, while the state of Uttaranchal lies partly in the Himalayas and partly in the northern plains.
. Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu together make the great peninsular plateau.
. Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura and Meghalaya are the l:1dian provinces made up of hills in the north-east India.
. Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa and West Bengal are states on the coast of India. Among our Union Territories, Daman and Pondicherry have sea boundaries.
. The Indian states on international boundaries (other country/ countries within brackets) are: Gujarat (Pakistan), Rajasthan (Pakistan), Punjab (Pakistan), Jammu and Kashmir (China and Pakistan), Himachal Pradesh (China), Bihar (Nepal), Uttaranchal (China and Nepal), Uttar Pradesh (Nepal), West Bengal (Bhutan and Bangladesh), Sikkim (China, Bhutan and Nepal), Arunachal Pradesh (Bhutan, China and Myanmar), Nagaland (Myanmar), Manipur (Myanmar); Mizoram (Bangladesh and Myanmar), Meghalaya (Bangladesh), Tripura (Bangladesh), and Assam (Bhutan, Bangladesh and Myanmar).
. The states of Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand are the only land-locked states. They are not on an international border either.
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